Lake Region

KHHS boys soccer team heads into break off 4-4 tie

BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Logan Spence scored two goals for the Keystone Heights High School boys soccer team, which finished in a 4-4 tie against visiting Hamilton County on Dec. 17. Chris Anderson and Jayden Park each scored a goal for the Indians, who played their last match before the Christmas break. Aaron…

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Lake Region

Keystone girls soccer team loses by 1 goal to Columbia

BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Visiting Columbia handed the Keystone Heights High School girls soccer team its second straight loss, defeating the Indians 3-2 on Dec. 16. Ella Hutchins and Kiersten Shaw each scored a goal, with Shaw recording an assist on Hutchins’ score. Kendall Gagnon and Aspen Krohn both played in goal, with…

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Crime

Asked for a ride to store, carjacked truck 

BY DAN HILDEBRAN  Monitor Editor  KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— A Lake Region woman was arrested after Clay deputies said she and two other people carjacked a man’s truck.  Amber Marie Caudill, 29, was arrested by Clay deputies in Keystone Heights  on Dec. 7 for the Nov. 4, 2021 offense of armed carjacking.    According to court papers, the victim agreed…

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Crime

Recent arrests in Bradford, Union and Clay 

Dec. 4 through Dec. 10  The following individuals were arrested recently by local law enforcement officers in Bradford, Union or Clay (Keystone Heights-area) counties. All defendants are considered innocent until convicted in a court or until pleading guilty or no contest. Information in this report is from law enforcement agencies and court documents, which are public records.    …

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Crime

Keystone man killed in hit-and-run 

BY DAN HILDEBRAN  Monitor Editor  MELROSE— The Florida Highway Patrol said it is looking for the driver of a Dodge, Plymouth or Chrysler that struck and killed a Keystone Heights man on Friday, Dec. 10.   The agency said in a news release that the collision occurred around 7 a.m. on State Road 26, a mile west of County Road 1469…

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Features

Keystone parade: ‘No Place Like Home for Christmas’

BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Lake Region Kiwanis organized the annual nighttime Christmas parade up South Lawrence Boulevard Saturday night. This year’s theme was “No Place Like Home for Christmas and the Starling Family claimed the first prize for closest to the theme.  Other winners were: Best marching unit: First: (Tie) Keystone Heights…

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Features

­­­Melrose parade celebrates school

MELROSE— The Melrose Business and Community Association celebrated the survival of Melrose Elementary School during the Merry Melrose Christmas parade Saturday.  The MBCA-sponsored parade, back this year after a pandemic-induced break in 2020, designated the school’s principal as the parade’s grand marshal and proclaimed as the theme for the event: “Be True to your School.”…

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Obituaries — Dec. 14, 2021

  Lenora Cone GEORGIA Lenora Israel Cone, 74, of Enigma, Georgia passed away Tuesday, December 7, 2021, at her residence. Born December 14, 1946, in Albany, Georgia, she was the daughter of the late J. L. Altman Israel and Mary Davis Musselwhite.  Before retiring, she was a legal secretary for Morris and Webster Law Firm. She loved her…

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Bradford County

HCA boys are winning easy in midst of 4-game streak

BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer After losing to Branford — its first meeting against a public school — the Hope Christian Lions boys basketball team has reeled off four straight wins, with its latest victory coming by a score of 72-54 against visiting Open Bible Christian (Valdosta, Georgia), on Dec. 9. The game against…

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Lake Region

Shaw’s big night helps KHHS girls soccer team win 6th straight

BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Kiersten Shaw scored five goals as the Keystone Heights High School girls soccer team won its sixth straight match, defeating visiting Fort White 8-0 on Dec. 13. It was the third straight mercy rule victory for the Indians, who’ve scored 47 goals in their last six matches. Shaw has…

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